Round Table Mentoring, or All the Mentoring You Need in 60 Minutes
a New ISIT Event.
Need help with your job search? Time management? Teaching?Ìý Funding? Work-life balance? Join the Outreach Subcommittee and other ISIT attendees for hors d'oeuvres and lively discussion of these and other pressing career issues. There will be nine round table discussions, each centered around a different topic, and each led by mentors with expertise to share. Stay at one of the following tables for a deep dive or move from table to table to discuss different facets of your career:
Ìý
I. INDUSTRY OR ACADEMIA?
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Emina Soljanin (Rutgers) and Chao Tian (U. Tennessee)
II. EFFECTIVE TEACHING TECHNIQUES
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Emre Telatar (EPFL) and Sergio Verdú (Princeton)
III. FUNDING YOUR RESEARCH
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Rick Brown (US NSF) and Núria Sebastián Gallés (ERC)
IV. ACHIEVING WORK-LIFE BALANCE
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Negar Kiyavash (UIUC) and Anand Sarwate (Rutgers)
V. TIME MANAGEMENT
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Helmut Bölcskei (ETH) and Frank Kschischang (U. Toronto)
VI. BRANCHING INTO ALLIED FIELDS
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Alex Dimakis (UT Austin) and Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC)
VII. NAVIGATING THE ACADEMIC JOB MARKET
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers) and Yury Polyanksiy (MIT)
VIII. NAVIGATING THE TENURE TRACK
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Natasha Devroye (UIUC) and Ashish Khisti (U. Toronto)
IX. THE POSTDOC EXPERIENCE
ÌýÌý Ìý led by Yücel AltuÄŸ (Princeton) and Aly El Gamal (Purdue)
Ìý
Sponsored by the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Information Theory Society Outreach Subcommittee:
Joerg Kliewer, co-chair <[email protected]>
Aaron Wagner, co-chair <[email protected]>
Tara Javidi <[email protected]>
Bobak Nazer <[email protected]>
Michèle Wigger <[email protected]>
Vincent Y. F. Tan <[email protected]>